Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

God didn´t bless me so I can backslide, He didn´t give me a status so that I can become a statue.

You are backed by great power. Press onwards, you will succeed.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.