I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

The passing minute is every man’s equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

A man’s happiness,—to do the things proper to man.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.