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.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.