While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

Men practice war; beasts do not.