The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.