Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.