Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.