Life without literary studies is death.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

You talk one way, you live another.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.