The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

Habit is second nature.