A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune."

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

All is ephemeral,-fame and the famous as well.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those for which you are angry and grieved.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.