Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

While we are postponing life speeds up.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.