Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.