While we wait for life, life passes
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.