A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.