Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.