Above all things, reverence yourself.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words ...

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and t ...