The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

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