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.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

The way to good conduct is never too late.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.