The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.