Make fair agreements and stick to them

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

With a heavy load and a long journey

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.