Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.