When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

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

Let no act be done without purpose.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.