Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.