The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Living calls for the art of the wrestler, not the dancer. Staying on your feet is all; there is no need for pretty steps.

Think of the totality of all Being, and what a mite of it is yours; think of all Time, and the brief fleeting instant of it that is allotted to yourself; think…

One can live well even in a palace.