Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.