The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not pert….

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear..

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws..

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it..

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse..

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to..

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that ea….

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe..

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee..

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he livet….

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm..

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable..

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made..

What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has vi….

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before..

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so o….

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you w….

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a p….

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist no….

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that..

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, s….