A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Free will carried many a soul to hell but never a soul to heaven.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.