Every guilty person is his own hangman.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.