God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.