Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.