So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.