"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life"
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear"
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present"
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"
"Men exist for the sake of one another"
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight"
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it"
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last"
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig"
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else"
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature"
"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh"
"Confine yourself to the present"
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished"
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also"
"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish"
"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it"
"Be content to seem what you really are"
"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely"
