It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

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

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.