Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.