The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Think of God oftener than you breathe.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

You lose only the things you have