Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.