Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.