He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Selfknowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day