“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today.”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”

“We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it.”

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”

“Excess in anything becomes a fault.”

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

“No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.”

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”