The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

I believe in fate, never in chance.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

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

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.