Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.