It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason