"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently...

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control...

“And when you say: ‘Give me also a share in these gifts which you have found so helpful,’ I reply that I am anxious to heap all these...