To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.