"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."

"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."