Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.