No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

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.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.