Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

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.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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.