To quote Samuel Johnson over and over and ...

The future is purchased by the present.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities he does not possess.

Bachelors have consciences.  Married men have wives.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Worth seeing?  Yes, but not worth going to see.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.