A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.