Self-respect is the best of all.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.