It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.