Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Live according to your income.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.