If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.