What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.