You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.