Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

All haste implies weakness.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

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.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.