Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.