Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.