It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.