When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.