In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

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

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.