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.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.