Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.