Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Tranquility is the old man's milk.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.