The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

No sober person dances.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.