He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!