The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

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.

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.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.