Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.