We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.