Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.