Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.