Who said “Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.”?

“An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.”

“That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.”

“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”

“I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.”

“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”

“Poetry is the utterance of truth — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.”

“[N]ever does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

“An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.”

“Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.”

“The essence of justice is mercy.”

“Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.”