How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.