The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.