There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

Hard work and righteousness are important to God

Learn to live together with other people

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.