Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.