"You will never do anything in this life worth remembering unless you give up the hope of being remembered."

"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

"It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest."

"Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get."