"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"No profit grows where no pleasure is taken."

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."