Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

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

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

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.