It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.