Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

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.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.