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.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.