Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.