What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

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.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.