"To live each day as if it were thy last, without haste, without sloth, without hypocrisy."

"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"Nothing is good but what is profitable."

"The true man of honor is he who is ready to stand by a good cause even when it is unpopular."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."