If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.