Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"

Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.