Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.