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

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.