No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.