The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.