Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'