Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Live each day as if it be your last.