"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."