The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

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

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The way to good conduct is never too late.