Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
No man was ever wise by chance.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Men learn while they teach.