"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were."

"Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune."

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."

"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."

"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh."

"A humble soul understands that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"A humble soul understands that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."