Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

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

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.