For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.