Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Rage is mental imbecility.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.