It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?