A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.