An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

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.

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.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.