Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.