The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

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

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

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

Every movement reveals us.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.