Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

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

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.