That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.