The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

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.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.