Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.