Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

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

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.