If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
Time discovers truth.
The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.