"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

"It's not in how many times you fall down, what matters is how many times you get back up."

"A half-truth is a whole lie."

"That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation."

"The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."