Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.