If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.