Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

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.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.