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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

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

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

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