Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Half talent is no talent.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.