It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.