To live long, live slowly.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.