Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.