The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
What you think is the summit is only a step up
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.