Our life is what our thoughts make it.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.