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

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.