Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.