Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.