To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
A Christian is the highest style of man.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
I cannot abide being bored.
The mind can never foresee its own advance
It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
During the night we must wait for the light.
The whole world is not worth one soul.
