“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.”

“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.”

“He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.”