Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.