For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.