Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.