It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it....