They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

The principle part of faith is patience.