A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, th ...

As his name is, so is he.

As the man is, so is his strength.

Be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man.

Be who you are and be that well.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.