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

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.