No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.