You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.