Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.