Give your host a little something when you leave; little presents are little courtesies and never offend.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.