Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.