How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.