Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Try to be of some use to others.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.