Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.