“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”

“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.”

“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.”

“When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”

“Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”