The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.