Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.