We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.