He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.