Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.