The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.