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.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

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.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.