The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.