Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

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.