He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

As the world leads we follow.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.