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

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.