Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.