"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."

"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday."

"Where a man can live, he can also live well."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."

"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

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

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

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

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."

"Be content to seem what you really are."

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."