Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant:...

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