Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.