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.

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

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

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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.