It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.