To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.