Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.