Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.