What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.