No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.