The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

A good resolve will make any port.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.

To drink away sorrow.