Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.