Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Man was formed for society.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
In charity there is no excess.
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.