In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.