What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.