A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.