The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket.—Johnson.
One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.—Laténa.
Request.—No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.—Cæsar.
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.—Lavater.
Resignation.—O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.—Fénelon.
Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.—Mountford.
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards has ta'en with equal thanks.—Shakespeare.
Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shall come to pass that your life at last shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as it pleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the most ancient heavens are not more sure than that.—Robert Collyer.
Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.—Thomson.
"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.—Pressense.