If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so 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.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.