Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.