Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.