A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

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

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.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.