Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.