Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.