The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.