If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

...the infallible man does not exist.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it