Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.