I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.