No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.