Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The only thing constant in life is change

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.