Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

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.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.