The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.