As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?