Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.