Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.