There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.