As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
I do not teach. I relate.