It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

Poverty is the mother of crime.