Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.