Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.