I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.
. . . be more guided by hope than fear.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph. D. 's and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.
Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.