The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Who has more leisure than a worm?

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.