If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.