Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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 must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.