A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution