Speak but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself ; waste nothing.

Let your conduct towards men have some uniformity.

'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'

'It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.'

I strive to discover how to signal my companions before I die, how to give them a hand, how to spell out for them in time one complete word at least, to tell t…