All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.