A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.