There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

To the stars through difficulties.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.