The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
He that takes a wife, takes care
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.