It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.