Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.