The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.