If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.