If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.