Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

Life's uncertain voyage.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.