Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.