When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.