“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” 

“The Soul selects her own Society.” 

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” 

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” 

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” 

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care” 

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.” 

“Till I loved I never lived.” 

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.” 

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” 

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.” 

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” 

“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.” 

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.” 

“Judge tenderly of me.” 

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?” 

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.” 

“My friends are my estate.” 

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.” 

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.” 

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.” 

“Till I loved I never liked enough.” 

“Love is Immortality.” 

“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.” 

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.” 

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Only the educated are free.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness