What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

You must make your own opportunities.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.