"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your entire life. Do not let your thoughts range over all the various troubles which you have met and will meet, but in every present case, ask yourself, 'What is …"

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"To expect that your children will never do wrong is to be a fool."

"Consider the past—a change of empires, and you may foresee the future. For it will be the same kind of thing, and it is impossible for things to deviate from the present order: wherefore to contemplat…"