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

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.