Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.