... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.