Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.