Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Let us think less of men and more of God.
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
Life is as serious a thing as death.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.