Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.