There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.