Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.