Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.