Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Obedience is the Christian's crown.