A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.