If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

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

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.