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.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.