Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.