The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity. (p. 121). - Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others. (p. 139).

The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they have not this foundation. (pp. 54-55).

It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them. (p. 200).