“God helps him who strives hard.”

The wisest men follow their own direction.

You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.

My love for you was greater than my wisdom.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Action achieves more than words.

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Death is the only water to wash away this dirt.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.