The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.