"It is better to deserve respect and not have it, than to have it and not deserve it. God respects you. That is the most important thing. [...] Let the people of the world think what they will of you. God thinks well of you."
- Thomas Watson, Puritan author of The Art of Divine Contentment
(Painting: "Portrait of Paul Mounet," by Loius-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, c.1875)