Appearances: 'It is better to be respected as wise than feared as cunning. Being clever is no fault, nor is calculating necessarily devious, but virtue often abides with the simple and corruption often with the quick.'

Anger: 'Keep your anger in check. Anger is like a fire's ember; the hotter it burns the quicker it consumes itself and those things around it. Unchecked, anger…

Change: 'Leave room for other possibilities in your life. When we have made up our minds about something or someone, we often never revisit the circumstances t…

Honesty: 'Honestly appraise your defects, and diligently seek to minimize them. Self examination often only reveals that we cannot honestly examine ourselves. …

'Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary …

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.