It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

In every good man a God doth dwell.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!