Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

The public must and will be served.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

Let us see what love can do.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

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.