“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
