“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”

“Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...”

“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”