A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.