Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.