There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.