'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.