It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Everything may happen.