“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.”

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.

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