“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”

“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.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”