The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.