What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Integrity expects integrity.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.