How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.