Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.