Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.