"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…"

"When you are about to say anything, first examine what you are going to say, and then speak."

"Freedom is not the right to do what you want, but the power to do what is right."

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own resources. The challenges to our spirit are not to be avoided, but embraced."