But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.