The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?