The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.