Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.