If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Whatever begins, also ends.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.