To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.