The scars of others should teach us caution.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.