Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
For greed, all nature is too little.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.