In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

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

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.