Poverty is the mother of crime.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.