Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.