The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.