Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.