It is better to be envied than pitied.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.