» Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
» Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
» Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
» Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
» Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
» Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
» How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
» When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
» It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
» Men exist for the sake of one another.