The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

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.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.