Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
Of two evils choose the least.
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
Frugality is a handsome income.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
Dulce bellum inexpertis. – War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman.
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
Eagles don’t catch flies.
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
It’s the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.