Poverty is the mother of crime.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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 the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Confine yourself to the present.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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 secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.