"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yoursel…"

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"When you have said 'Tomorrow I will begin to attend,' you must be told that you are saying this: 'Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean; it will be in the power of others to …"

"If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things."