Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Find a path or make one.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.