You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Only the educated are free.

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.