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

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.