Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.