We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.