Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.