Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

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.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.