"Do not waste the remainder of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some common good. For to speculate about what your neighbor is doing, and why, and what he is saying,…"

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly."

"Thou wilt soon die, and thou art not yet simple, nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of harm from external things, nor an affectionate friend to wisdom, nor without suspicion that any e…"

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."