Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.