Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

No one wearies of benefits received.

Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.