Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.