Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.