“Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.”

“The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.”

“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.”

“Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.”

“As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”

“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”

“You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.”