One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!