Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.