There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.