Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.