Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Time makes more converts than reason.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.