Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.