All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.