God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.