He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.