Status in English

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

An honest man is always a child.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.