Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.