Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.