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

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

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.

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.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'