Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.