It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.