0.In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.1.Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.2.You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it is a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.3.Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.4.The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.5.The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.6.But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.7.Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.8.Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.9.Compassion is the basis of all morality.10.Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.11.In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.12.In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.13.The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.14.There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.15.So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.16.I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.17.Pride the first peer and president of hell.18.I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.19.Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.20.