Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, f….

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for ….

In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently wor….

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done….

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..

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them..

Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if some….

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such goo….

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine..

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all c….

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought..

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessi….

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen..

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is ….

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind..

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another….

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even h….

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on s….

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse..

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work..

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and c….