"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're in need of is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach."

"The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like him who did the injury."

"No one can be happy who has been thrust out of the way of truth and wanders about through a labyrinth of error."