The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.