Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Of two evils choose the least.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.