The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.