A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.