Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.