Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.