The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.