Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.