As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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  Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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  Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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  Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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  We let our pleasant days slip by unnoticed; only when bad days come do we wish the others back.

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  The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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