Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about