Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Truth and ceremony are two things.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.