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.

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.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

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.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.