When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.
And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.
God has made all men to be happy.
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn’t bite.
The best place to get help is from yourself.
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.