Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.