"Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"Fools! not to be able to reflect how many things a man may gain by means of not saying and doing what is useful to himself, and how few things by saying and doing what is useful to himself."

"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"To expect that your children will never do wrong is to be a fool."