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

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary