It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.