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.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.