Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.