Do all you can that your soul and your name which are solely and entirely yours may become what you wish them to be. I consider him a wise man who does not overrate the value of money, nor thirst for it, nor found all his hopes on it. Who makes a good and rightful use of it may be called its lord and owner. It is not for me to define which of these names apply to myself, I know however that in my house money is only seen coming and going. I shall leave nothing to my heirs they can possibly quarrel about.
Nothing passes so swiftly and silently as time.
We all have our burden to carry, everyone feels his own, but there is a difference between the weight of the one and the other. Most of us, bent upon studying the direction and the changes of the wind, wait and wait, and die waiting. Who meditates on the course of time which is so short and swift, must be aware of its value and understand that it ought not to be wasted in deeds nor in words which are but vanity. A good steward who sees that the resources of the house are being exhausted, curtails all unnecessary expense. And so it is with everything because we prize our treasures most when we are about to loose them.