The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
The surest poison is time.
The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. . . . Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise
Humility is the surest sign of strength.
. . . to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents
The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!
Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.