Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.