Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.