Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.