Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models.
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Think of God more often than thou breathest.