When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

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.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.