Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

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

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

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

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.