Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.