To My Great-grandfather I Owed The Advice

Truth And Ceremony Are Two Things.

The Happiness Of Your Life Depends Upon The Quality Of Your Thoughts.

Because Other People Are Fools, Must You Be So Too?

Because A Thing Is Difficult For You, Do Not Therefore Suppose It To Be Beyond Mortal Power. On The Contrary, If Anything Is Possible And Proper For Man To Do, Assume That It Must Fall Within Your Own Capacity.

Observe Constantly That All Things Take Place By Change, And Accustom Thyself To Consider That The Nature Of The Universe Loves Nothing So Much As To Change The Things Which Are, And To Make New Things Like Them.