The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

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