Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.