The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.