You don't know what you don't know.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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.