Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Busy idleness urges us on.