"Don't be surprised if those outside are always talking against you and making jokes about you."

"If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he does not understand that it is in his power to be happy."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, do not be a man of business. For if you are a man of business, you must be a man of trouble."

"As long as you are a human being, you are a member of a great whole, and you have a part to play. If you play it badly, you will be hissed off the stage; if well, applauded."

"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."