Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

For we walk by faith, not by sight

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.