If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something