Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

The law of common sense.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.