"The faculty of reason is the only one which can contemplate itself, and by itself distinguish truth from falsehood, and the real from the unreal."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance, and be ready to let it go."

"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"He who is in a hurry to do a thing, though he may do it well, yet he does it not well, for he has not given himself time to do it well."