The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.