"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."

"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"The universal cause is a torrent. And how trivial are all things which are done in a state which is subject to change, and in what a sphere of things which are perishing!"

"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is g…"