“Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”

“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

“Omul care nu se gândeste sau nu prevede lucrurile îndepartate are necazuri aproape”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”

“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”