We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrifted

Time discovers truth.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

Other mien's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

Time heals what reason cannot