A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.