A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

We are the other of the other

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.