Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

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

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.