Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengal 11522 The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.