Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?