Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.