Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.