You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.