Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.