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

Poverty is the mother of crime.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.