When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.