Courage Is A Virtue Only So Far

The Smallest Things Become Great When God Requires Them Of Us; They Are Small Only In Themselves; They Are Always Great When They Are Done For God.

Nothing Is More Despicable Than A Professional Talker Who Uses His Words As A Quack Uses His Remedies

This Poor World, The Object Of So Much Insane Attachment, We Are About To Leave; It Is But Misery, Vanity, And Folly; A Phantom--the Very Fashion Of Which "passeth Away.

The Past But Lives In Written Words: A Thousand Ages Were Blank If Books Had Not Evoked Their Ghosts, And Kept The Pale Unbodied Shades To Warn Us From Fleshless Lips.

Most People I Ask Little From. I Try To Give Them Much, And Expect Nothing In Return And I Do Very Well In The Bargain.