There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.