Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.