2. Be as you wish to seem.

3. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

4. I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.

5. The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.

6. Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

7. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

8. The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

9. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.