Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.