Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

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.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.