We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.