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.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.