Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer/ Both for themselves and those who call them friend?/ For so the whole round earth is every way/ Bound by gold chains
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.
No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death