Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies