Nature does nothing uselessly.

Observe all men, thyself most.

What you seek is seeking you.

Everything popular is wrong.

Look within. Within is the foundation of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

There were two vices much blacker and more serious than the rest: lack of persistence and lack of self-control… persist and resist.

The true man is revealed in difficult times. So when trouble comes, think of yourself as a wrestler whom God, like a trainer, has paired with a tough young buck. For what purpose? To turn you into Olympic-class material. But this is going to take some sweat to accomplish.

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

What is your art? To be good.

Stick to what’s in front of you – idea, action, utterance.

Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.

Nothing should be done without a purpose.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

To accept without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.

Integrity and manliness. (What Marcus learned from his father)

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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

Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. 

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.