Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.