Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.