But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.