Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.