From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

He loves little who loves by rule.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.