Never despise what you don't understand.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.