“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”

“The finished man, you know, is difficult to please;a growing mind will ever show you gratitude.--Faust 1, lines 182-3”

“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”