When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

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

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.