We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

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

We learn not in the school, but in life.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.