Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

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.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.