Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.