When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

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.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.