Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

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.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

All is as thinking makes it so