Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Be content to seem what you really are.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.