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

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

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

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.