The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.
