If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.