Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.