The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

He that's secure is not safe.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.