Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.