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

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.