If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Let us try what love will do.