Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.