Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.