It is much safer to obey than to rule.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.