Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.