Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?