If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

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.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.