“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.

Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.