Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
For what can be known about God is plain to all, because God is plain to all, because God has shown it to them. Ever since creation of the world His invisible nature, namely His eternal power has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.
Birth does not lead to greatness; but cultivation of numerous virtues by a man leads him to greatness.
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy