The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.