We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

One honor won is a surety for more.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.