In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.