Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!