If you wish to be a writer, write.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.