There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.