If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

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

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.