"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

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

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it, as she wills everything else."