A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.

The more we seek through development and advancement, is in fact the more we lack.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.