You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Truth is the summit of being.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.