Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

Business

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Control

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Fathers

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

God

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Kindness

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Pain

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Praise

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Silence

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

Vow

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.