Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.