I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.