Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.