If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.