We Do Not Choose Our Own Parts

Choose The Life That Is Noblest, For Custom Can Make It Sweet To Thee.

Renew Every Day Your Conversation With God: Do This Even In Preference To Eating. Think More Often Of God Than You Breathe.

The Two Powers Which In My Opinion Constitute A Wise Man Are Those Of Bearing And Forbearing.

The Soul's Impurity Consists In Bad Judgements, And Purification Consists In Producing In It Right Judgements, And The Pure Soul Is One Which Has Right Judgements, For This Alone Is Proof Against Confusion And Pollution In Its Functions.

Every Habit And Faculty Is Preserved And Increased By Correspondent Actions, As The Habit Of Walking, By Walking; Of Running, By Running.