A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.