Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.