Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.