"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."

"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."

"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."

"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."

"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."

"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."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""

"Poverty is the mother of crime."

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"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."

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

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

"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."

"Each day provides its own gifts."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."