Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.