A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.