"Who contains himself goes seldom wrong...." - Quote by Confucius

“Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.”

“He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.”

“What is necessary is to rectify names.”

“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”

“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”

“It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.”

“Lend less than you owe.”

“Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.”

“Those who know when to halt are unharmed.”