Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.