It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.