Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

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

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.