A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

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

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.