When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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