"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"The greatest impediment to knowledge is the presumption of knowledge."

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."