Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.