Those who are wholly God's are always happy.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
The more you say, the less people remember.
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.