We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

Everything is but what we think it.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.