For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Love knows nothing of order.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.