While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.