Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Everything may happen.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.