If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

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

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.