“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”

“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”

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

“We learn not in the school, but in life.”

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by”

“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.”