“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”

“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

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

“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.”