There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

God defend me from myself.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.