You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.