"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, do not be a man of business. For if you are a man of business, you must be a man of trouble."

"Every difficulty in life is a chance for us to turn inward and to discover the resources we possess to deal with that difficulty. The resources are not without, but within."

"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…"

"If your mind is not polluted by these things, you will always be healthy."