"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 existing things and to make new things like…"

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not the thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now."

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he possesses, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not."

"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!"