Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.