“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

Retire into yourself as much as possible.

What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The first step of healing is to beware of your own negative thoughts.

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Beware of the unloved, because they will eventually hurt themselves or others.

Don’t walk under the coconut trees.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.