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.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.