Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

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.

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.