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.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.