Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Themes
Time
Brevity, delay, and the river that will not wait.
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.
Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
Lost time is never found again.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Time discovered truth.
To choose time is to save time.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.