"Advice is least heeded when most needed."

"Character is what you are in the dark."

"A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment."

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

"A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman."

"A joy that's shared is a joy made double."

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

"Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs."

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."