Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.