What once were vices are manners now.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The way to good conduct is never too late.