Why will you keep caring for what the world says?   Try, oh!  try to be no longer a slave to it.   You can have little idea of the comfort of freedom from it – it is bliss! 

…remember that character means exactly what we are, while reputation is only what other people think we are.

Unless a man is accustomed to trust to his own resources, his talents will never be fully developed;  he will never gain that quickness of perception, that promptness of decision, that readiness of action that are essential to the successful conduct of affairs. 

In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves, or their powers. 

Most evil is perverted good.   For instance, extravagance is generosity carried to excess.   Revenge is sometimes a sense of justice which has put no restraint upon itself.

…be temperate in all thy religious notions, in love, in wine, in all things, and of a peaceful heart with thy fellows.

Temperance is not only a virtue in itself;  it is also the guard and girdle… of all the other virtues

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

No experience is without value;  sorrow and suffering, the battle of adverse circumstances, afford the richest discipline of all.

The glory and the glow of life come by right living.