Do not be ashamed of help.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

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.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.