You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

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

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

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.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.