Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

My art and profession is to live.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.