"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

"Nothing has more power to broaden the mind than the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been."

"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself:…"

"Even in a palace, life can be lived well."