After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.