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

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

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

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.