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

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Live according to your income.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.