Real calmness should be found in activity itself. When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.