When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.