The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
Do what you should, not what you may.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.