Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.