To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune but deeper felicity.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the fault of others.