Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.