No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.