“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Stranger in a strange country.

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

What you can’t enforce, do not command.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

There is no success without hardship.

The good befriend themselves.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.