Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

If you wish to be loved, love.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.