Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

School is the cheapest police.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.