To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.