We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.