Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

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.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.