"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not the thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"To endure is the first thing that a man must learn if he is to achieve anything, or if he is to live at all."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Or is it the case that all things flow from the one fountain, as all things are parts of one whole? Or is it the case that all things are parts of one whole, and that they all flow from the one founta…"