...Learn to give thanks for everything.

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.