Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

How soon will time cover all things.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.