One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

I got Lamborghini dreams Nissan nightmares Moving white my ice cool as the night air.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!