The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

When we have got it, we want something else.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.