The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes