Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.