If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Friends are proved by adversity.