It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Luck never made a man wise.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.