It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.