People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.