I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.