Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.