"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for …"

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."