Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Love is friendship set on fire.
The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission...