Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.