Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

Life is long if you know how to use it.

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

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.