Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.