It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.