Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Fasting is a medicine.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.