Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.