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?

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.