Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Remember that all is opinion.

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

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

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.