Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.