How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.