“Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.”

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.