Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.