Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.