Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

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

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

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.