Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.