A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.