Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.