The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.