All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

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

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

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.