Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.