Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.