It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors.

The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.