A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. |
A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots |
A man who does nothing never has time to do anything |
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass |
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. |
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. |
Every generation needs regeneration |
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. |
He that deserves nothing should be content with anything |
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. |
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. |
Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years |
Of two evils, choose neither |
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength |
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk |