There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but by your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing