Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

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.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.