Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today