What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.