One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

Christians are not powerless. We have the mighty power of God available through God the Holy Spirit, even in this world.

If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society.

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

In the day of prosperity be joyful but in the day of adversity consider.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.